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pikzel | 1 year ago

"The Macintosh on which I type this has 64MB: Unix was not designed for the Mac. What kind of challenge is there when you have that much RAM?"

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Narishma|1 year ago

I don't understand what they mean in that quote. Neither Unix nor the Mac were designed for that much RAM.

II2II|1 year ago

Judging from the context, the user interface was fine in the days of limited resources (a 16 kiloword PDP-11 was cited) but then modern computers have the resources for better user interfaces.

They clearly didn't realize that even more modern Unix kernels would require hundreds of megabytes just to boot.